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The story is one of the few published in U.S. newspapers in the past 25 years to portray the human costs of the urban guerrilla war between the Catholic IRA, Protestant Loyalist paramilitaries and Great Britain. For decades, the world media has paid little attention to the Orwellian conditions of existence in Belfast, where neighborhoods hemmed in by barbed wire are patrolled by British troops with machine guns, and political violence in routine. (December 22, 1996)